There isn't any report of mozilla on the CNet article. From my reading of it, it looks like AOL will be acting as a portal for Sony.
Plus we all need to relax. Isn't there a link (link masters feel free to reply) around to Linux on the PS2? With Linux on the PS2, there will be a light in the two evil darknesses.
Is this just me, or does the whole rise and fall of the dot.com scene feel like the BBS scene? Many sysops saw potential in their BBS's (myself included) and went mainstream (well, as mainstream as a closed audience could provide) and they nearly all went by the way of the dinosaur. It was the original content and customer supported sites that remained. My only semi-supported site that worked was designed to cater for the hearing impared, allowing them access to a large wealth of public information - basically a better version of existing TTY services all in one place.
Suppose the more things change, the more they stay the same. A few lessons from those days should be tinkered with and applied. Before we had to worry about dialing OUT costs (mumble international calls) and today it's bandwidth OUT costs.
I've tried to read webpages in some countries which would have been faster if they did use a pigeon. Sitting here in my office, I envision my message trying to be sent along an old goat track, on the back of the trusty village-owned three-legged billygoat.
Oh, also.. don't forget to get two cameras, in different parts of the house, that spy on each other! Oh, and I suppose it would help to disguise them. You could put them in airvents or an empty book or other such JamesBond-ian ideas, or just put on in a bookshelf, near other small blocky objects.
... and it works quite well! I have a 486 router doing the firewall/modem sharing thing, and it was a simple move to attach a simple camera to it, and it monitors the whole room. When the image seen by the camera changes more than x% (you'll need to alter this to suit your environment - windows on rocking boats and light/dark cycles will affect this), it starts clicking away.
The images are taken every 10 seconds (this was for a 56k connection), and uploaded to a blind server. The images continued to be sent until 5 mintes had passed AND the perceived image had not changed it's x%. And all this on a Windows box... I'm more than sure a Linux box could do it.
Viewing the data was simple.. just check the webpage which displayed that directory.. could be passworded if you liked.. and the server could email/page you if it started receiving images.
Cheap, effective, and only adding the cost of a simple camera to your existing equipment. I'd advise getting a free account somewhere to house the images, it's pretty easy. I've been using xoasis.com which allows php, 20M of space, ftp, etc etc. It would be a good choice. You just need a 24/7 connection or your dialup set correctly.
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You'll need to be careful though, never give a computer or robot champagne ...
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There isn't any report of mozilla on the CNet article. From my reading of it, it looks like AOL will be acting as a portal for Sony.
Plus we all need to relax. Isn't there a link (link masters feel free to reply) around to Linux on the PS2? With Linux on the PS2, there will be a light in the two evil darknesses.
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McCarrum!
Is this just me, or does the whole rise and fall of the dot.com scene feel like the BBS scene? Many sysops saw potential in their BBS's (myself included) and went mainstream (well, as mainstream as a closed audience could provide) and they nearly all went by the way of the dinosaur. It was the original content and customer supported sites that remained. My only semi-supported site that worked was designed to cater for the hearing impared, allowing them access to a large wealth of public information - basically a better version of existing TTY services all in one place.
Suppose the more things change, the more they stay the same. A few lessons from those days should be tinkered with and applied. Before we had to worry about dialing OUT costs (mumble international calls) and today it's bandwidth OUT costs.
Just my $0.07 cents (price adjusted for tax).
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Oh, also .. don't forget to get two cameras, in different parts of the house, that spy on each other! Oh, and I suppose it would help to disguise them. You could put them in airvents or an empty book or other such JamesBond-ian ideas, or just put on in a bookshelf, near other small blocky objects.
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McCarrum!
... and it works quite well! I have a 486 router doing the firewall/modem sharing thing, and it was a simple move to attach a simple camera to it, and it monitors the whole room. When the image seen by the camera changes more than x% (you'll need to alter this to suit your environment - windows on rocking boats and light/dark cycles will affect this), it starts clicking away.
The images are taken every 10 seconds (this was for a 56k connection), and uploaded to a blind server. The images continued to be sent until 5 mintes had passed AND the perceived image had not changed it's x%. And all this on a Windows box ... I'm more than sure a Linux box could do it.
Viewing the data was simple .. just check the webpage which displayed that directory .. could be passworded if you liked .. and the server could email/page you if it started receiving images.
Cheap, effective, and only adding the cost of a simple camera to your existing equipment. I'd advise getting a free account somewhere to house the images, it's pretty easy. I've been using xoasis.com which allows php, 20M of space, ftp, etc etc. It would be a good choice. You just need a 24/7 connection or your dialup set correctly.
G'luck!
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McCarrum!